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Definition: Lulu |
LuluNoun1. A very attractive or seductive looking woman. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Lulu" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a famous warrior". |
Date "lulu" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
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Lulu can refer to:
- The pop music singer: see Lulu (singer)
- The Alban Berg opera: see Lulu (opera)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lulu."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lulu is an opera by the composer Alban Berg. The libretto was adapted from Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist (1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (1903) by Berg himself.
Conception and composition
Berg first saw Die Büchse der Pandora in 1905 in a production by Karl Kraus, but did not begin work on his opera until 1929, after he had completed his other opera, Wozzeck. He worked steadily on the score until 1935, when the death of Manon Gropius, the daughter of Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler, prompted him to break off work to write his Violin Concerto.Berg completed the violin concerto swiftly, but the time he spent on that meant he was unable to complete the opera before his death in 1935 - he had completed the work up to bar 268 of Act III, Scene 1, leaving the rest of the work in short score with indications of instrumentation for much of it.
The opera was first performed in an incomplete form in 1937. Erwin Stein made a vocal score of the whole of Act III following Berg's death, and Helene Berg, Alban's widow, approached Arnold Schoenberg to complete the orchestration. Schoenberg at first accepted, but upon being sent copies of Berg's sketches he changed his mind, saying that it would be a more time-consuming task than he had thought. Helene subsequently forbade anybody else completing the opera, and for over forty years only the first two acts could be given complete, sometimes with parts of Berg's Lulu Suite played in place of Act III.
Helene's death in 1976 paved the way for a new completed version to be made by Friedrich Cerha. This version was published in 1979 and premiered on February 24 of the same year at the Paris Opera.
Synopsis
Prolog: A circus ringmaster introduces the various animals in his menagerie. The last is Lulu herself, who is carried on stage and introduced as a snake.
Act I
Scene 1: Lulu, the wife of Dr. Goll, an elderly doctor, is having her portrait painted. Dr. Schön, a newspaper editor who rescued Lulu from the gutter and with whom she is now having an affair, is also present. Presently, his son Alwa arrives, excuses himself, and he and Dr. Schön leave. The Painter makes heavy passes at Lulu. Dr. Goll unexpectly walks in, and finding the two of them alone, promptly collapses and dies of a stroke.
Scene 2: Lulu has now married the Painter. She receives a telegram announcing Dr. Schön's engagement, which seems to trouble her. She is visited by Schigolch, a tramp who seems to have featured in her past in some unspecified way. Dr. Schön arrives, referring to Schigolch as Lulu's father. He has come to ask Lulu to stay out of his life from now on. She is unmoved by his request, and when the Painter, her husband, arrives she leaves. Dr. Schön tells the Painter about their affair, and insists he confronts his wife about it. The Painter leaves, ostensibly to confront Lulu, but instead, he slits his own throat. Lulu appears to be unmoved by this suicide, and simply tells Dr. Schön "you'll marry me all the same."
Scene 3: Lulu, working as a dancer, is sat in her dressing room with Alwa. The two discuss various things, including a Prince who is in love with Lulu and wants to marry her. Lulu leaves to take the stage, but refuses to go on because Dr. Schön and his fiancee are in the audience. Dr. Schön, comes in to try to convince her to perform. When the two are left alone, she tells Schön that she is thinking of leaving with the Prince to Africa. Dr. Schön realises that he cannot live without her, and is convinced by Lulu to write a letter to his fiancee breaking off his engagement, which Lulu herself dictates. Lulu then calmly continues with the show.
Act II
Scene 1: Lulu has now married Dr. Schön, who is full of jealously over her many admirers. One of them, the lesbian Countess Geschwitz, visits her to invite her to a ball, but leaves in the face of Dr. Schön's disapproval. When the two go out, the Countess returns and hides. Two other admireres, the Acrobat and the Schoolboy, also enter, and all begin to talk to Lulu when she returns. Presently, Alwa arrives, and the admirers hide as Alwa declares his love for Lulu. Dr. Schön returns, spots the Acrobat, and begins a long argument with Lulu, during the course of which he discovers the other admirers. He gives Lulu a revolver, and orders her to kill herself, but she shoots Schön instead. The police arrive to arrest Lulu for the murder.
Interlude: The interlude consists of a silent film (accompanied by Berg's score). In it, we see Lulu's arrest, trial, conviction and imprisonment. Then we see her deliberately contract cholera and be transferred to hospital. The Countess Geschwitz visits her, and gives her her clothes, so that Lulu can escape disguised as her, which she does.
Scene 2: The Countess Geschwitz, Alwa and the Acrobat are gathered in the same room as Act II, Scene 1. They are awaiting Schigolch, who is to take the Countess to the hospital. She is going to sacrifice her own freedom by taking Lulu's place so that nobody will discover she has escaped until it is too late. The Acrobat says he is going to marry Lulu and move with her to Paris where the two will work in an act together. Schigolch leaves with the countess, then returns with Lulu, who is so ill from her disease that the Acrobat abandons his plan, and goes off to summon the police instead. Schigolch is sent off to buy train tickets, and, left alone, Alwa and Lulu declare their love for each other and agree to go away together.
Act III
Scene 1: Lulu and Alwa are now living in Paris. The scene is a party in a casino. Lulu is being blackmailed into working in a Cairo brothel by the Acrobat and a pimp; she is still wanted for Dr. Schön's murder and they will turn her in if she does not do as they say. Schigolch arrives, asking for money. He is eventually convinced to lure the Acrobat away to a hotel and murder him. After they have gone, news arrives that shares in the railway, which the party guests all owned and had so much confidence in, have crashed. The party quickly breaks up, and in the confusion, Lulu manages to change clothes with a young man. She escapes with Alwa just before the police arrive to recapture her.
Scene 2: Lulu and Alwa are now living with Schigolch in poverty and are on the run in London. Lulu is working as a prostitute. She arrives with a client, a professor (played by the same actor as Dr. Goll, Lulu's first husband). The Countess Geschwitz then arrives with the portrait of Lulu which she has brought from Paris. Alwa hangs it on the wall. Lulu goes out, and returns with another client, the Black Man (played by the same actor as the Painter, Lulu's second husband). He refuses to pay in advance, and kills Alwa in a struggle. Schigolch removes the body while Geschitz contemplates suicide, an idea she gives up when she realises than Lulu is not moved by it. Eventually, Lulu goes out and returns with a third client (played by the same actor as Dr. Schön, Lulu's third husband). He haggles over the price, and is about to leave when Lulu decides she will sleep with him for less than her usual fee. This client, who is actually Jack the Ripper, murders Lulu, and then on his way out kills the Countess as well, who swears her love to Lulu as the curtain falls.
Structure
The large-scale structure of Lulu is often said to be like a mirror - Lulu's popularity in the first act is mirrored by the squalor she lives in in Act III, and this is emphasised by Lulu's husbands in Act I being played by the same singers as her clients in Act III.This mirror-like structure is further emphasised by the film interlude at Act II at the very centre of the work. The events shown in the film are a miniature version of the mirror structure of the opera as a whole (Lulu enters prison and then leaves again) and the music accompanying the film is an exact palindrome - it reads the same forwards as backwards. The centre-point of this palindrome is indicated by an arpeggio played on the celesta, first rising, then falling (shown here on the top staff):
The tone rows
Although some of Lulu is freely composed, Berg also makes use of his teacher Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique. Rather than using one tone row for the entire work, however, he gives each character their own tone row, meaning they act rather like the leitmotivs in Richard Wagner's operas.This is the tone row associated with Lulu herself:
From this one tone row, Berg derives tone rows for some of the other characters. The tone row associated with Alwa, for example, is arrived at by repeating Lulu's tone row over and over and taking every seventh note, like this:
This results in the following tone row:
Similarly, the tone row associated with Dr. Schön is arrived at by repeating Lulu's tone row and taking then first note, missing one note, taking the next, missing two, taking the next, missing three, taking the next, missing three, taking the next, missing two, taking the next, missing one, taking the next, missing one, taking the next, missing two, taking the next, and so on, like this:
This results in the following tone row:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lulu (opera)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lulu (real name Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie) is a Scottish singer. She was born on November 3, 1948 in Glasgow, and shot to fame at the age of fifteen with her version of "Shout", delivered in a raucous and extremely mature voice. Her backing group were called "The Luvvers", but she soon ditched them to become a mainstream solo artist.In 1966 she made her debut as a film actress in To Sir, With Love, a British vehicle for Sidney Poitier. In the meantime, she continued with a thriving pop career and several television series of her own. In 1969, she represented Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest, and was joint winner with representatives from three other countries - there had never been a draw before, and the rules were altered to prevent it ever happening again.
In the same year, Lulu married Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees in a fairytale ceremony. Their careers forced them apart, and they divorced, childless, in 1973. Lulu then married her hairdresser, John Frieda, and remained with him for twenty years until another divorce. They had one child.
Lulu's singing career waned, but she remained in the public eye, continuing to act. In 1987, she played Adrian Mole's mother on television, and in the 1990s she made a comeback, guesting on Re-light My Fire, a Take That single which went to number one in the British charts.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lulu (singer)."
Synonyms: LuluSynonyms: beauty (n), dish (n), knockout (n), looker (n), mantrap (n), peach (n), ravisher (n), smasher (n), stunner (n), sweetheart (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Lulu it likes you. (Eyes of Laura Mars; writing credit: John Carpenter; David Zelag Goodman) Then we have Lulu, she grunts a lot and has gotten very big. Looks like a seal (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime García Estrada) | |
Movie/TV Titles | It's Lulu (1970) Lulu (1969) Akd al lulu (1964) A Weekend with Lulu (1962) Lulu (1962) | |
Song Titles | To Sir With Love (performing artist: Lulu) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
Music |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | EDALHAB during the FLARE project off FL used ALVIN's support ship, Lulu. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Shipboard recompression chamber on the R/V Lulu during FLARE project. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | EDALHAB habitat and support ship Lulu during FLARE project. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | ALVIN and its original catamaran support ship, LULU. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Ladybug 2" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "I'd like to thank my stock model LuLu the ladybug for posing for this shot." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Lulu" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 69.57% of the time. "Lulu" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 69.57% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 17.39% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 13.04% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lulu" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lulu | First name Female | 4,000 | 1,499 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Lulu" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a famous warrior". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Lulu." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Louis | Male | English | Ludwig |
| Louise | Female | English | Louis |
| Louis | Male | French | Ludwig |
| Louise | Female | French | Louis |
| Ludwig | Male | German | N/A |
| Luise | Female | German | Louise |
| Lulu | Female | German | Luise |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
1. Lulu, FL |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lulu | 431 | lulu guinness bag | 16 |
lulu guinness | 350 | baby lulu bedding | 16 |
baby lulu | 245 | guinness lulu purse | 16 |
lulu devine | 213 | lulu tidus yuna | 15 |
little lulu | 90 | de edades las lulu | 14 |
final fantasy 10 lulu | 52 | hughes lulu | 14 |
final fantasy lulu | 45 | cosplay lulu | 13 |
lulu hentai | 45 | bell lulu | 12 |
santos lulu | 41 | love lulu sir | 11 |
final fantasy x lulu | 38 | lulu planet | 11 |
lulu guinness handbag | 29 | final fantasy 10 lulu pic | 11 |
lemon lulu | 23 | baby lulu red rose | 10 |
flesh for lulu | 22 | lulu roman | 10 |
handbag lulu | 22 | hugues lulu | 9 |
la lulu pequeña | 21 | lulu picture | 9 |
lulu nude | 18 | guinness lulu shoes | 9 |
baby lulu clothing | 18 | castagnette lulu | 9 |
baby lulu sale | 17 | lulu divine | 9 |
lulu restaurant | 17 | lulu tobing | 9 |
lulu pequeña | 16 | lulu naked | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "lulu"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | чудо човек (pip, pippin, ripper), нещо чудесно (pie). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szexbomba (pinup girl), nyerő dolog, nagy szám (cat's meow, cat's pajamas, cat's whiskers, winner), csinos nő (dolly, lovely, mink, number). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ululay.(various references) | |
Swedish | unik person, unik grej. (various references) | |
Turkish | olağanüstü şey (humdinger, marvel, phenomenon, prodigy, ripsnorter). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lulu": lulus. (additional references) | |
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"Lulu" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jluli, Lalo, lalu, lauloa, lelu, Leule, Leuluai, leuu, lilu, ll, Lllu, llo, loli, lolr, lolu, lolul, Ludu, lufu, lugu, luil, lul, lulab, lule, Lulea, lulic, Lullula, lully, luly, lupu, Luque, luu, luvly, Luwum, lyublyu, mulu, Nullum, ulla, Ulli, Ulloo, ullu, Ulnlf, ulu, Ului. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-l-u-u" | |
-1 letter: ulu. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-l-u-u" | |
+1 letter: lulus. | |
+2 letters: bulbul, lunula, lunule, pullup. | |
+3 letters: bulbuls, bullous, limulus, loculus, lungful, lunulae, lunular, lunules, lupulin, lustful, outpull, plumule, pullout, pullups, soulful, ukulele, ululant, ululate, usually. | |
+4 letters: alluvium, blushful, bullpout, bullrush, calculus, clubhaul, cultural, guileful, illuvium, luculent, lungfuls, lunulate, lupulins, mutually, nucellus, numskull, outbully, outpulls, plugugly, plumular, plumules, pullouts, ruefully, sulfuryl, ukuleles, ululated, ululates, undulled, unlawful, usefully, uvularly, volvulus. | |
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